Part of Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Bill – in the House of Commons at 6:15 pm on 24 March 2020.
Diane Abbott
Shadow Home Secretary
6:15,
24 March 2020
Does the Minister not accept, though, that because the scheme is called the Windrush compensation scheme, some people might assume that it is only for people from the West Indies?
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